reducing our deficit and a balanced way and as before the plan that would do that and would eliminate the sequester in the process. when it comes to these delays, though, congress passed an act in order to avoid these delays. >> the fact you are not asking for the ability to prioritize spending under the faa suggests -- >> what i am saying -- >> you want to sequester to inflect -- >> since we did everything we could to avert the sequester and unfortunately republicans decided as a political matter that it was a home-run for them to end like this upon the american people, i think that suggestion just as not hold wrote to buy water. secondly, the faa did take all the action it could under lots of produce the savings and avoid furloughs up until this point where because of the nature of the budget and the personnel had the nature of their operations, furloughs are the only option available to the faa at this time. now, again, if congress wants to address this matter then they should act, but this is something that only by law congress can do. [inaudible question] cheeks. [inaudible quest